News
Site News
Hints & Tips
Opinion
Workflows
Actions
Actions
Create PDF Booklet
Function: Reorders the pages of a PDF so that you can print it as a booklet.
Author: Christoph Vogelbusch
Requires: PDFs in portrait format.
Input: (Files/Folders) Needs PDF-files as input.
Options: You can optionally try to preserve paper format. This means the portrait page is turned to landscape and two pages are fitted onto the landscaped one. For pages that are already landscape this option is ignored.
Output: (Files/Folders) PDF with ladscape pages, two orignal pages per resulting page, ordered binding in the middle.
Notes: Print the resulting PDF with Layout setting:”Two-Sided: short-edged binding” or print the odd pages and turn them manually to print the even pages. Installer includes a PDF Service for printing PDFs directly with this action.
Download
Please disregard my last comment, I’ve just re-read the info provided. I’m tired and didn’t realize the pages were coming in landscape so you can bind in the middle.
Comment by SMR — May 10, 2009 @ 8:54 pm
Hi, when I run the pdf booklet, it turns my pdf’s into landscape. Ie, combines two pages into one in landscape format. However, I want to make my print in vertical, and also not double paged.
Comment by SMR — May 10, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
great! solution to my problem transitioning from OpenOffice on PC (where brochure print works within OO) to Mac (where it doesn’t). good to have such a generic solution many thanks! micha
Comment by Micha — January 27, 2009 @ 7:25 am
Nice work.
Very long document are best broken into sets of sub-booklets, each with a multiple of 4 pages. Otherwise the stack of papers gets too thick to staple or bind.
With your current script, it’s possible to do this manually by printing multiples of 4 pages at a time. How about adding this functionality to the automator script?
Comment by ak — November 17, 2008 @ 12:17 am
Hey, for those of you having the issue J Newton had, and for J Newton too.. here is what you problem is…
Do not open this in Acrobat for Mac. Open your PDF in Preview and go from there. This will solve all issues.
Comment by Chris — November 6, 2008 @ 6:25 pm